Regarding "Roadway deaths prompt revival of safety council" (Page A3, Thursday), Houston's drivers have no respect for other drivers on the road. They are far more aggressive than drivers from any other city I have visited, except perhaps for Athens, Greece.

From the cellphone junkies wandering all over the road or cutting across three lanes of traffic to the almost missed exit, to the super-aggressive four-wheel-drive pickup truck cowboys speeding and swerving through traffic and intimidating all who get in their way, to those miscreants who pull out into traffic with little regard for the consequences to themselves or others, Houston drivers seem to be all about "me."

I'm not even going to mention the lack of courtesy most drivers exhibit through failure to use turn signals. The fundamental problem is driver aggressiveness and that is an offshoot of a mindset that always puts self over community: I have a right to have a ton of guns ... I have a right to drive 45 on the inside lane ... I have a right to pull into a waiting string of cars ... because I am more important than you are.

It simply is not possible to place enough law enforcement officers in enough places to make a meaningful difference because any reasonable driver can tell you that incidents and near accidents occur near them three or four times a day. This is going to continue until society at large begins to tone down its attitude that individual rights seem to always trump community rights.